Our goals are to provide entertainment, education, and exposure to the arts. We endeavor to raise public awareness through the arts: eradicating abuse and creating an atmosphere of acceptance for survivors with disabilities. Mainstreaming trauma survivors with physical and mental disabilities into the arts.

SAF has participants from 20 countries and 48 states, crossing all cultures, genders, ages and religions. They represent traditional and exploratory disciplines of the visual, literary and performing arts arenas. They are survivors, working through their personal journeys which span physical and domestic violence, rape, war-related trauma, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, AIDS, cancer, MS, mental illness, and other disabilities.

It is our mission to enable the survivor/artists to display and market their works to give them recognition, hope and direction by implementing this innovative approach to healing.

SAF Artists on the WebSAF is not currently accepting individual art submissions; however, we maintain a large and regularly-updated list of SAF participating survivor artists' websites featuring their various art forms. To become a participating artist, please contact us.

Call for Entries: SAFe-Card Contest

Survivors Art Foundation is sponsoring an e-card contest to help support those who are helping hurricane survivors, and for those who are hurricane survivors themselves. SAF seeks art, graphics, photographs and poetry We will choose art from each medium to be featured on e-cards that can be sent free of charge through our website. The cards will list information for donation to the American Red Cross and other charities who are assiting in the relief efforts for hurricanes Katrina & Rita survivors. Please email us your entries as JPEGs no larger than 150k in size, with email subject "card contest.

Read how Survivors Art Foundation received their Laureate status as a member of the "Year 2000 Computerworld Smithsonian Collection." (click image for full article).

The Medal Presentation took place at the National Mall in Washington DC, on April 3, 2000. SAF formally received recognition and a gold medal from the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and the Director of the National Museum of American History.

Saturday March 16th: "Going Sane" Art & Mental Illness Seminar at the New School

Snowflake Video Productions

Kickstarter is an online pledge system for funding creative projects. New visitors can find the blue “SIGN UP” link on the Kickstarter homepage. When you submit a pledge, it is processed through Amazon Payments. Those without an Amazon account will need to create one.

Raw Visions (Art of Survival) is a documentary based on the Survivors Art Foundation mission of healing through art. Your much-needed donations will enable us to complete the project.

Awards & Grants

SAF would like to thank the Epson America Corporation for their generous support in providing essential computer scanning, printing and digital photography equipment for the artwork installations on the SAF Internet Art Gallery.

Survivors Art Foundation has been honored to receive consecutively for three years the 1999, 2000 and 2001 "Grants for the Arts" Award and Funding from the New York State Council on the Arts. The Huntington Arts Council, Inc. administers the award in Suffolk County.

Send Free SAFe-CardsPlease see our SAFeCards page to send an e-card with an image of an 8-foot mural (below) created by prisoners with AIDS from Delaware Correctional Center. Designed by SAF Outreach Coordinator Marietta Dantonio-Fryer.